Want to build a rack, questionsss.

:confused:Hellooo. So I have been reading through different posts on here regarding building racks. I just have a few questions myself. I want to build a rack to hold 6 (41qt sterilite) tubs. I know melamine is the choice I have, along with plywood. I just am not sure about how putting the rack together goes? Like screwing in the sides and what not. I feel retarded asking this, haha. I love halfdawgs rack he built. I just don't want to mess up measurments, I just don't know where to start with building this! I'm housing ball pythons, I have 3 at the moment.

Helppp me?? :)

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Originally Posted by shescountry89

:confused:Hellooo. So I have been reading through different posts on here regarding building racks. I just have a few questions myself. I want to build a rack to hold 6 (41qt sterilite) tubs. I know melamine is the choice I have, along with plywood. I just am not sure about how putting the rack together goes? Like screwing in the sides and what not. I feel retarded asking this, haha. I love halfdawgs rack he built. I just don't want to mess up measurments, I just don't know where to start with building this! I'm housing ball pythons, I have 3 at the moment.

Helppp me?? :)

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Head to your local Menard's and look for the shelving section.

They have precut, white melamine coated shelving that works out very nicely. I built one of my racks with:

2 - 3'x6" (footers)
2 - 5'x18" (sides)
9 - 3'x18" (shelves)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46...ttle/001-2.jpg

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Originally Posted by bobbittle

Head to your local Menard's and look for the shelving section.

They have precut, white melamine coated shelving that works out very nicely. I built one of my racks with:

2 - 3'x6" (footers)
2 - 5'x18" (sides)
9 - 3'x18" (shelves)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46...ttle/001-2.jpg

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Though its nice to use precut wood like that it also cost more to do so. Ive built 3 racks out of 6 Sheets of 4'x8' sheets of melamine only costing me $25 per sheet of melamine.

IF you check my other threads out of the racks i build i have dimensions on them.

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Originally Posted by bobbittle

Head to your local Menard's and look for the shelving section.

They have precut, white melamine coated shelving that works out very nicely. I built one of my racks with:

2 - 3'x6" (footers)
2 - 5'x18" (sides)
9 - 3'x18" (shelves)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46...ttle/001-2.jpg

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How did you make it though? Did you have to screw in each of the shelves into the side? I dont see any marks on the wood where a screw would be... I was thinking about making one out of ply wood exactly like that pretty much except with dado cuts in the sides to hold the shelves...

hey flamethrower, what are the foters for?

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Originally Posted by reptidude1

hey flamethrower, what are the foters for?

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What you mean forters.
Do you mean Footers. at bottom of my racks. There there just for looks

oh, ok thx

If you want to build a rack and want something better than melamine head to eplastics.com. They sell sheets of 4X2 of ABS plastic in black or white and for four sheets of the 4X2 they were about 8 dollars a piece and 22 shipping.

Also, flamethrower for one rack what are the exact cuts you got on the 4'by8' melimine, because im bad at measuring cuts, so i wanted to know how to maximize the amont of cuts per a board

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Originally Posted by reptidude1

Also, flamethrower for one rack what are the exact cuts you got on the 4'by8' melimine, because im bad at measuring cuts, so i wanted to know how to maximize the amont of cuts per a board

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In my threads of making the racks i put all the cuts needed to make the racks. the smaller ones only used 1.5 sheets

Sorry flameethrower, but i cant find it. If it isnt too much trouble can you give me the link

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Originally Posted by flameethrower

What you mean forters.
Do you mean Footers. at bottom of my racks. There there just for looks

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They actually serve to make the base of the unit stonrger and so it doesnt rock as easily. but ok.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=101055

but thats for 28qs i need the one you have here for 41s

my 41qt rack used almost 4 sheets of Melamine.

each shelf is18x38

sides are 72x18. i didnt use a back but if you want use peg board in this size 72x18.

I say 18 for the back to give yo ua 1" gap on back to feed wires out